'Baby pantry' gets more than 400 items from game
The minor league baseball team in actress Jennifer Garner'shometown threw a mock baby shower for her and husband Ben Affleck andcollected more than 400 items it donated to a Fayette County charity.
Nancy Thomas, who runs the only "baby pantry" in Fayette County atthe Starting Points center inside Falls View Presbyterian Church,about 33 miles east of Charleston, said the donations from the July 9"shower" will keep the pantry going for a long time.
Many people who brought gifts to the Single-A West Virginia Powergame put them inside attractive gift bags. One bag was even marked"Baby Affleck." Thomas plans to give out the items in gift bags, too.
The donations included denim coveralls stamped with the WestVirginia University logo, pink and pretty frilly dresses, dozens ofsnuggly outfits, a stroller, a walker, diapers, shampoo, powder andlotion.
Although many of the people come to the baby pantry are lowincome, Thomas said she also helps the working poor. "These are thepeople who really need the help. They do not qualify for otherprograms."
On the night of the shower, Thomas gave out free snow cones at thebaseball game to thank everyone who brought a gift.
She also wrote a letter to Garner, thanking her, too. "She may nothave appreciated the shower or felt good about people using her name.But I want her to know what a difference this will make in the livesof so many people," Thomas said.
Thomas gives out everything a baby and parents could need,including books and information about child development. Thomasincludes a letter to new mothers, explaining to them that everyonefeels overwhelmed at first. She also helps parents with referrals toother agencies.
Nominee represented mining industry in W.Va. case
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. was among lawyers whorepresented the National Mining Association in a brief it filed in alandmark mountaintop removal mining case.
Roberts was not the group's primary lawyer and it was the onlycase in which he represented the organization, said associationspokeswoman Carol Raulston.
Roberts was one of three lawyers who filed a friend of the courtbrief in an appeal before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Inthat case, the late U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II had ruledthat a buffer zone rule prohibited coal companies from burying largerstreams with strip mine waste.
The association's brief said Haden's ruling "jeopardizes thecontinued viability of the coal industry in Appalachia andelsewhere." The brief also said that by hearing the case, Hadenallowed citizens to circumvent an administrative process.
The appeals court overturned Haden on jurisdictional grounds,saying the dispute belonged in state court.
President Bush on Tuesday nominated Roberts to fill the seatcurrently held by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has retired.
Manchin says state will look into residents' concerns
LOGAN - Gov. Joe Manchin says state officials will look into Hartsresidents' concerns that a new cross-county school's name, mascot andcolors will not reflect the inclusion of their children.
Harts students will have the option of attending either the newChapmanville Regional High School in Logan County or a plannedconsolidated school near Hamlin in Lincoln County.
The new Logan County school will retain the existing ChapmanvilleHigh's colors and mascot.
Manchin said he has asked Schools Superintendent Steve Paine tolook at the Chapmanville project.
"Chapmanville's new high school ... I think the complaints werethat they had used the demographics of the Harts Creek area for thejustification of the new Chapmanville (school), but then there was noinput from those people to where they'd be part of Chapmanville,"Manchin told The Logan Banner.
In most consolidation cases, the new school is given a new name,mascot and colors, Manchin said.
"They closed Reedsville High School back in my area and broughtthem into Fairmont, but they at least adopted some of the colors totry to make them acceptable to that system. Everyone reaches out alittle bit and makes some concessions," he told the newspaper.
Ancient remains from Indian village reburied
MORGANTOWN - The Seneca Nation has reburied about 18 sets ofremains that were removed from the site of an ancient Monongahelavillage that is being developed for condominiums and businesses.
"The bones were turned over to the Seneca tribes of theHaudenosaunee," said Deb Campbell, with the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers in Pittsburgh.
The Monongahela village site off of state Route 705 comprisesabout 2 acres of the 42 acres owned by 705 Five Development Group,which is building the Suncrest Towne Centre. The development willinclude between 350 and 400 condominiums, several restaurants,offices and a movie theater.
The remains were reinterred with proper ceremony, Kathy Mitchell,tribal historic preservation officer for the Seneca Nation, saidTuesday. Mitchell would not disclose the location.
The New York tribe is part of the Haudenosaunee, an alliance ofnations known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations that alsoinclude the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora.
"Everything was done exactly the way the government wanted itdone," said 705 Five spokesman David Biafora. "They sent out lettersto 21 or so tribes across the country" to see which would take careof the remains.
The corps ordered a complete archaeological excavation before 705Five could start development. A final report will not be ready forabout a year, Campbell said.
W.Va. among top states in poverty concentration
One in three West Virginians live in areas where at least 20percent of their neighbors fall below the poverty line, the fifth-highest rate in the country, according to a U.S. Census report.
The study of 1999 census tracts - small statistical subdivisionsof counties averaging about 4,000 inhabitants - found that 33.8percent of West Virginians lived in these "poverty areas."
Only the District of Columbia (41.9 percent), Louisiana (41.7percent), Mississippi (41.7 percent) and New Mexico (37.1 percent)had higher rates. Kentucky was sixth at 30.2 percent. The nationalaverage was 18.4 percent.
The states with the lowest concentration of poverty were NewHampshire (1.9 percent), Vermont (4.4 percent) and Iowa (5.1percent).
The poverty level is based on a sliding scale depending on afamily's size. In 1999, the poverty threshold was $8,667 in annualincome for an individual under 65 years old, or $13,423 for a familyof four.
Agency's library now available through its Web site
The state Division of Rehabilitation Services has put itslibrary's card catalog on the agency Web site, thanks to a $6,800donation from the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
"This grant made it possible for people to search our library'sholdings on the Internet," said Interim Director Janice Holland.
The project was completed July 20.
People can use the Web to look up disability related information,then request the information from their local library through theinterlibrary loan system, allowing disabled people anywhere in thestate access to the division's library.
State briefs'Baby pantry' gets more than 400 items from game
The minor league baseball team in actress Jennifer Garner'shometown threw a mock baby shower for her and husband Ben Affleck andcollected more than 400 items it donated to a Fayette County charity.
Nancy Thomas, who runs the only "baby pantry" in Fayette County atthe Starting Points center inside Falls View Presbyterian Church,about 33 miles east of Charleston, said the donations from the July 9"shower" will keep the pantry going for a long time.
Many people who brought gifts to the Single-A West Virginia Powergame put them inside attractive gift bags. One bag was even marked"Baby Affleck." Thomas plans to give out the items in gift bags, too.
The donations included denim coveralls stamped with the WestVirginia University logo, pink and pretty frilly dresses, dozens ofsnuggly outfits, a stroller, a walker, diapers, shampoo, powder andlotion.
Although many of the people come to the baby pantry are lowincome, Thomas said she also helps the working poor. "These are thepeople who really need the help. They do not qualify for otherprograms."
On the night of the shower, Thomas gave out free snow cones at thebaseball game to thank everyone who brought a gift.
She also wrote a letter to Garner, thanking her, too. "She may nothave appreciated the shower or felt good about people using her name.But I want her to know what a difference this will make in the livesof so many people," Thomas said.
Thomas gives out everything a baby and parents could need,including books and information about child development. Thomasincludes a letter to new mothers, explaining to them that everyonefeels overwhelmed at first. She also helps parents with referrals toother agencies.
Nominee represented mining industry in W.Va. case
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. was among lawyers whorepresented the National Mining Association in a brief it filed in alandmark mountaintop removal mining case.
Roberts was not the group's primary lawyer and it was the onlycase in which he represented the organization, said associationspokeswoman Carol Raulston.
Roberts was one of three lawyers who filed a friend of the courtbrief in an appeal before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Inthat case, the late U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II had ruledthat a buffer zone rule prohibited coal companies from burying largerstreams with strip mine waste.
The association's brief said Haden's ruling "jeopardizes thecontinued viability of the coal industry in Appalachia andelsewhere." The brief also said that by hearing the case, Hadenallowed citizens to circumvent an administrative process.
The appeals court overturned Haden on jurisdictional grounds,saying the dispute belonged in state court.
President Bush on Tuesday nominated Roberts to fill the seatcurrently held by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has retired.
Manchin says state will look into residents' concerns
LOGAN - Gov. Joe Manchin says state officials will look into Hartsresidents' concerns that a new cross-county school's name, mascot andcolors will not reflect the inclusion of their children.
Harts students will have the option of attending either the newChapmanville Regional High School in Logan County or a plannedconsolidated school near Hamlin in Lincoln County.
The new Logan County school will retain the existing ChapmanvilleHigh's colors and mascot.
Manchin said he has asked Schools Superintendent Steve Paine tolook at the Chapmanville project.
"Chapmanville's new high school ... I think the complaints werethat they had used the demographics of the Harts Creek area for thejustification of the new Chapmanville (school), but then there was noinput from those people to where they'd be part of Chapmanville,"Manchin told The Logan Banner.
In most consolidation cases, the new school is given a new name,mascot and colors, Manchin said.
"They closed Reedsville High School back in my area and broughtthem into Fairmont, but they at least adopted some of the colors totry to make them acceptable to that system. Everyone reaches out alittle bit and makes some concessions," he told the newspaper.
Ancient remains from Indian village reburied
MORGANTOWN - The Seneca Nation has reburied about 18 sets ofremains that were removed from the site of an ancient Monongahelavillage that is being developed for condominiums and businesses.
"The bones were turned over to the Seneca tribes of theHaudenosaunee," said Deb Campbell, with the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers in Pittsburgh.
The Monongahela village site off of state Route 705 comprisesabout 2 acres of the 42 acres owned by 705 Five Development Group,which is building the Suncrest Towne Centre. The development willinclude between 350 and 400 condominiums, several restaurants,offices and a movie theater.
The remains were reinterred with proper ceremony, Kathy Mitchell,tribal historic preservation officer for the Seneca Nation, saidTuesday. Mitchell would not disclose the location.
The New York tribe is part of the Haudenosaunee, an alliance ofnations known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations that alsoinclude the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora.
"Everything was done exactly the way the government wanted itdone," said 705 Five spokesman David Biafora. "They sent out lettersto 21 or so tribes across the country" to see which would take careof the remains.
The corps ordered a complete archaeological excavation before 705Five could start development. A final report will not be ready forabout a year, Campbell said.
W.Va. among top states in poverty concentration
One in three West Virginians live in areas where at least 20percent of their neighbors fall below the poverty line, the fifth-highest rate in the country, according to a U.S. Census report.
The study of 1999 census tracts - small statistical subdivisionsof counties averaging about 4,000 inhabitants - found that 33.8percent of West Virginians lived in these "poverty areas."
Only the District of Columbia (41.9 percent), Louisiana (41.7percent), Mississippi (41.7 percent) and New Mexico (37.1 percent)had higher rates. Kentucky was sixth at 30.2 percent. The nationalaverage was 18.4 percent.
The states with the lowest concentration of poverty were NewHampshire (1.9 percent), Vermont (4.4 percent) and Iowa (5.1percent).
The poverty level is based on a sliding scale depending on afamily's size. In 1999, the poverty threshold was $8,667 in annualincome for an individual under 65 years old, or $13,423 for a familyof four.
Agency's library now available through its Web site
The state Division of Rehabilitation Services has put itslibrary's card catalog on the agency Web site, thanks to a $6,800donation from the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
"This grant made it possible for people to search our library'sholdings on the Internet," said Interim Director Janice Holland.
The project was completed July 20.
People can use the Web to look up disability related information,then request the information from their local library through theinterlibrary loan system, allowing disabled people anywhere in thestate access to the division's library.
State briefs'Baby pantry' gets more than 400 items from game
The minor league baseball team in actress Jennifer Garner'shometown threw a mock baby shower for her and husband Ben Affleck andcollected more than 400 items it donated to a Fayette County charity.
Nancy Thomas, who runs the only "baby pantry" in Fayette County atthe Starting Points center inside Falls View Presbyterian Church,about 33 miles east of Charleston, said the donations from the July 9"shower" will keep the pantry going for a long time.
Many people who brought gifts to the Single-A West Virginia Powergame put them inside attractive gift bags. One bag was even marked"Baby Affleck." Thomas plans to give out the items in gift bags, too.
The donations included denim coveralls stamped with the WestVirginia University logo, pink and pretty frilly dresses, dozens ofsnuggly outfits, a stroller, a walker, diapers, shampoo, powder andlotion.
Although many of the people come to the baby pantry are lowincome, Thomas said she also helps the working poor. "These are thepeople who really need the help. They do not qualify for otherprograms."
On the night of the shower, Thomas gave out free snow cones at thebaseball game to thank everyone who brought a gift.
She also wrote a letter to Garner, thanking her, too. "She may nothave appreciated the shower or felt good about people using her name.But I want her to know what a difference this will make in the livesof so many people," Thomas said.
Thomas gives out everything a baby and parents could need,including books and information about child development. Thomasincludes a letter to new mothers, explaining to them that everyonefeels overwhelmed at first. She also helps parents with referrals toother agencies.
Nominee represented mining industry in W.Va. case
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. was among lawyers whorepresented the National Mining Association in a brief it filed in alandmark mountaintop removal mining case.
Roberts was not the group's primary lawyer and it was the onlycase in which he represented the organization, said associationspokeswoman Carol Raulston.
Roberts was one of three lawyers who filed a friend of the courtbrief in an appeal before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Inthat case, the late U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II had ruledthat a buffer zone rule prohibited coal companies from burying largerstreams with strip mine waste.
The association's brief said Haden's ruling "jeopardizes thecontinued viability of the coal industry in Appalachia andelsewhere." The brief also said that by hearing the case, Hadenallowed citizens to circumvent an administrative process.
The appeals court overturned Haden on jurisdictional grounds,saying the dispute belonged in state court.
President Bush on Tuesday nominated Roberts to fill the seatcurrently held by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has retired.
Manchin says state will look into residents' concerns
LOGAN - Gov. Joe Manchin says state officials will look into Hartsresidents' concerns that a new cross-county school's name, mascot andcolors will not reflect the inclusion of their children.
Harts students will have the option of attending either the newChapmanville Regional High School in Logan County or a plannedconsolidated school near Hamlin in Lincoln County.
The new Logan County school will retain the existing ChapmanvilleHigh's colors and mascot.
Manchin said he has asked Schools Superintendent Steve Paine tolook at the Chapmanville project.
"Chapmanville's new high school ... I think the complaints werethat they had used the demographics of the Harts Creek area for thejustification of the new Chapmanville (school), but then there was noinput from those people to where they'd be part of Chapmanville,"Manchin told The Logan Banner.
In most consolidation cases, the new school is given a new name,mascot and colors, Manchin said.
"They closed Reedsville High School back in my area and broughtthem into Fairmont, but they at least adopted some of the colors totry to make them acceptable to that system. Everyone reaches out alittle bit and makes some concessions," he told the newspaper.
Ancient remains from Indian village reburied
MORGANTOWN - The Seneca Nation has reburied about 18 sets ofremains that were removed from the site of an ancient Monongahelavillage that is being developed for condominiums and businesses.
"The bones were turned over to the Seneca tribes of theHaudenosaunee," said Deb Campbell, with the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers in Pittsburgh.
The Monongahela village site off of state Route 705 comprisesabout 2 acres of the 42 acres owned by 705 Five Development Group,which is building the Suncrest Towne Centre. The development willinclude between 350 and 400 condominiums, several restaurants,offices and a movie theater.
The remains were reinterred with proper ceremony, Kathy Mitchell,tribal historic preservation officer for the Seneca Nation, saidTuesday. Mitchell would not disclose the location.
The New York tribe is part of the Haudenosaunee, an alliance ofnations known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations that alsoinclude the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora.
"Everything was done exactly the way the government wanted itdone," said 705 Five spokesman David Biafora. "They sent out lettersto 21 or so tribes across the country" to see which would take careof the remains.
The corps ordered a complete archaeological excavation before 705Five could start development. A final report will not be ready forabout a year, Campbell said.
W.Va. among top states in poverty concentration
One in three West Virginians live in areas where at least 20percent of their neighbors fall below the poverty line, the fifth-highest rate in the country, according to a U.S. Census report.
The study of 1999 census tracts - small statistical subdivisionsof counties averaging about 4,000 inhabitants - found that 33.8percent of West Virginians lived in these "poverty areas."
Only the District of Columbia (41.9 percent), Louisiana (41.7percent), Mississippi (41.7 percent) and New Mexico (37.1 percent)had higher rates. Kentucky was sixth at 30.2 percent. The nationalaverage was 18.4 percent.
The states with the lowest concentration of poverty were NewHampshire (1.9 percent), Vermont (4.4 percent) and Iowa (5.1percent).
The poverty level is based on a sliding scale depending on afamily's size. In 1999, the poverty threshold was $8,667 in annualincome for an individual under 65 years old, or $13,423 for a familyof four.
Agency's library now available through its Web site
The state Division of Rehabilitation Services has put itslibrary's card catalog on the agency Web site, thanks to a $6,800donation from the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
"This grant made it possible for people to search our library'sholdings on the Internet," said Interim Director Janice Holland.
The project was completed July 20.
People can use the Web to look up disability related information,then request the information from their local library through theinterlibrary loan system, allowing disabled people anywhere in thestate access to the division's library.
State briefs'Baby pantry' gets more than 400 items from game
The minor league baseball team in actress Jennifer Garner'shometown threw a mock baby shower for her and husband Ben Affleck andcollected more than 400 items it donated to a Fayette County charity.
Nancy Thomas, who runs the only "baby pantry" in Fayette County atthe Starting Points center inside Falls View Presbyterian Church,about 33 miles east of Charleston, said the donations from the July 9"shower" will keep the pantry going for a long time.
Many people who brought gifts to the Single-A West Virginia Powergame put them inside attractive gift bags. One bag was even marked"Baby Affleck." Thomas plans to give out the items in gift bags, too.
The donations included denim coveralls stamped with the WestVirginia University logo, pink and pretty frilly dresses, dozens ofsnuggly outfits, a stroller, a walker, diapers, shampoo, powder andlotion.
Although many of the people come to the baby pantry are lowincome, Thomas said she also helps the working poor. "These are thepeople who really need the help. They do not qualify for otherprograms."
On the night of the shower, Thomas gave out free snow cones at thebaseball game to thank everyone who brought a gift.
She also wrote a letter to Garner, thanking her, too. "She may nothave appreciated the shower or felt good about people using her name.But I want her to know what a difference this will make in the livesof so many people," Thomas said.
Thomas gives out everything a baby and parents could need,including books and information about child development. Thomasincludes a letter to new mothers, explaining to them that everyonefeels overwhelmed at first. She also helps parents with referrals toother agencies.
Nominee represented mining industry in W.Va. case
U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. was among lawyers whorepresented the National Mining Association in a brief it filed in alandmark mountaintop removal mining case.
Roberts was not the group's primary lawyer and it was the onlycase in which he represented the organization, said associationspokeswoman Carol Raulston.
Roberts was one of three lawyers who filed a friend of the courtbrief in an appeal before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Inthat case, the late U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II had ruledthat a buffer zone rule prohibited coal companies from burying largerstreams with strip mine waste.
The association's brief said Haden's ruling "jeopardizes thecontinued viability of the coal industry in Appalachia andelsewhere." The brief also said that by hearing the case, Hadenallowed citizens to circumvent an administrative process.
The appeals court overturned Haden on jurisdictional grounds,saying the dispute belonged in state court.
President Bush on Tuesday nominated Roberts to fill the seatcurrently held by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has retired.
Manchin says state will look into residents' concerns
LOGAN - Gov. Joe Manchin says state officials will look into Hartsresidents' concerns that a new cross-county school's name, mascot andcolors will not reflect the inclusion of their children.
Harts students will have the option of attending either the newChapmanville Regional High School in Logan County or a plannedconsolidated school near Hamlin in Lincoln County.
The new Logan County school will retain the existing ChapmanvilleHigh's colors and mascot.
Manchin said he has asked Schools Superintendent Steve Paine tolook at the Chapmanville project.
"Chapmanville's new high school ... I think the complaints werethat they had used the demographics of the Harts Creek area for thejustification of the new Chapmanville (school), but then there was noinput from those people to where they'd be part of Chapmanville,"Manchin told The Logan Banner.
In most consolidation cases, the new school is given a new name,mascot and colors, Manchin said.
"They closed Reedsville High School back in my area and broughtthem into Fairmont, but they at least adopted some of the colors totry to make them acceptable to that system. Everyone reaches out alittle bit and makes some concessions," he told the newspaper.
Ancient remains from Indian village reburied
MORGANTOWN - The Seneca Nation has reburied about 18 sets ofremains that were removed from the site of an ancient Monongahelavillage that is being developed for condominiums and businesses.
"The bones were turned over to the Seneca tribes of theHaudenosaunee," said Deb Campbell, with the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers in Pittsburgh.
The Monongahela village site off of state Route 705 comprisesabout 2 acres of the 42 acres owned by 705 Five Development Group,which is building the Suncrest Towne Centre. The development willinclude between 350 and 400 condominiums, several restaurants,offices and a movie theater.
The remains were reinterred with proper ceremony, Kathy Mitchell,tribal historic preservation officer for the Seneca Nation, saidTuesday. Mitchell would not disclose the location.
The New York tribe is part of the Haudenosaunee, an alliance ofnations known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations that alsoinclude the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora.
"Everything was done exactly the way the government wanted itdone," said 705 Five spokesman David Biafora. "They sent out lettersto 21 or so tribes across the country" to see which would take careof the remains.
The corps ordered a complete archaeological excavation before 705Five could start development. A final report will not be ready forabout a year, Campbell said.
W.Va. among top states in poverty concentration
One in three West Virginians live in areas where at least 20percent of their neighbors fall below the poverty line, the fifth-highest rate in the country, according to a U.S. Census report.
The study of 1999 census tracts - small statistical subdivisionsof counties averaging about 4,000 inhabitants - found that 33.8percent of West Virginians lived in these "poverty areas."
Only the District of Columbia (41.9 percent), Louisiana (41.7percent), Mississippi (41.7 percent) and New Mexico (37.1 percent)had higher rates. Kentucky was sixth at 30.2 percent. The nationalaverage was 18.4 percent.
The states with the lowest concentration of poverty were NewHampshire (1.9 percent), Vermont (4.4 percent) and Iowa (5.1percent).
The poverty level is based on a sliding scale depending on afamily's size. In 1999, the poverty threshold was $8,667 in annualincome for an individual under 65 years old, or $13,423 for a familyof four.
Agency's library now available through its Web site
The state Division of Rehabilitation Services has put itslibrary's card catalog on the agency Web site, thanks to a $6,800donation from the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation.
"This grant made it possible for people to search our library'sholdings on the Internet," said Interim Director Janice Holland.
The project was completed July 20.
People can use the Web to look up disability related information,then request the information from their local library through theinterlibrary loan system, allowing disabled people anywhere in thestate access to the division's library.
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